“So every time you’ve stealthed someone you’ve been tested between that occasion and the last sexual partner you’ve had,” Mr Tilley asked.

“Definitely not.”

“There’s a risk crossing the road and we all do that. Source: News Corp Australia

“So there is a risk?”

“Yes, there is but there’s a risk crossing the road and we all do that.”

The man maintained people were “more chilled than you might think” about having sex without condoms with casual partners whose sexual health status they did not know.

“I’m not a dirty-looking guy,” he said.

“But you made an agreement to wear a condom and then you breach that without the person knowing,” Tilley said.

“I don’t know. I don’t think I really make an agreement. I just put one on and if nothing is said I take it off. I don’t think it’s breaking the law.”

The man told Tilley he believed his views were shared by most of his mates.

In writing about stealthing in the Columbia journal, study author Alexandra Brodsky said she wanted to study the phenomenon after she realised so many of her female friends were having negative sexual experiences.

She said many had experienced “stealthing” but weren’t sure how to handle the situation.

“Survivors [of stealthing] describe nonconsensual condom removal as a threat to their bodily agency and as a dignitary harm,” Ms Brodsky wrote.

“‘You have no right to make your own sexual decisions,’ they are told. ‘You are not worthy of my consideration’.”

She said even worse is that there is a growing online community of men encouraging others to practice stealthing.

“Internet forums provide not only accounts from victims but encouragement from perpetrators,” she wrote.

“Promoters provide advice, along with explicit descriptions, for how to successfully trick a partner and remove a condom during sex.”

Anyone who has experienced stealthing can call 1800 RESPECT or Q LIFE on 1800 184 527 for support.

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Hey! My name is Jesse and I’m a 23 year old from Fremantle, WA. I’m finishing up my Diploma of Youth Work with North Metro TAFE, completing my last practical placement here with the YEP crew. I am extremely passionate about politics, advocacy and education and I’m so fortunate to be working with YEP in the space of peer education.